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2 Articles on Distance Learning

model is essential: students must create their own understandings and meanings from the resources and information available. Human...

Learning, Metacognition, and Perception

2002). Metacognition, which reflects a bit more mental tangibility in its definition, is comprised of three distinct components: ...

Distance Learning Programs' Evaluation

they dont know how to enroll, or they do not understand why it is important" (Bersin, 2002, p. 38). Needless to say, if the course...

Philosophy of Learning According to Seymour Papert

that Piagets theory of child development is "so simple that only a genius could have thought of it." Piaget, very simply, proposed...

Styles of Learning and Outdoor Education

to guide ones objective to the most appropriate fruition: 1. Teach a commitment to human responsibility for stewardship or care o...

Failing Grades and Learning Disabilities

category was first formulated in 1977. The phrase, "All student will learn to read by third grade" has become a rallying point in ...

Impact of Inclusion Upon Learning Disabled Students

"like frequent breaks or a small-group setting" (Rubenstein and Quinones, 2004). The state reports that 84 percent of students wit...

Leo F. Buscaglia's Living, Loving and Learning

fly; however, the curriculum committee was quite happy because the bird had at least tried to burrow (Buscaglia 13). As this sugge...

Third Grade Student and Childhood Learning Assessment

that it was a test that had also been given to her friend Haifa and that it was important to test more than one person. This seeme...

Personal Overview of Learning That is Lifelong

These two people were my father and my great grandmother. Like many young boys, I saw my father as a role model. My father was a...

Efficacy of Learning Teams

Perhaps this student is a good team member because he/she can encourage in a very positive manner. One weakness might be an...

Future Learning Improved by a Quality Preschool

for the district" (Childrens Action Alliance, 2003). The findings reported in the above outline demonstrate many and diverse bene...

Inquiry Based Learning and Elementary School Science

inquiries, the scientific information covered in any particular lesson plan will undoubtedly be remembered long after memorized fa...

Learning that is Inquiry Based

may be given increasing autonomy in their learning activities. Martin-Hansen provides a chart that illustrates this by showing the...

What Can be Learned by Meeting a Figure Who Lived in the Past

future for herself and her son. If this writer were to engage in a conversation with Ann, this writers grandmother several times...

Corporations and Learning Organizations

that embodies all of the characteristics of a learning organisation has not prevented the continual attempts to create that organi...

Assessment of English Language Learning

this manner (Assessment of ELL Students, 2004). The Woodcock-Munoz Language Survey basically provides a measure of a students lan...

Commercial Environment and the Learning Organization

are still gained fro potential sightings but proof has not emerged, If we look at the idea that has become popular in the 1990s of...

Connectionism Versus Motor Theory: Language Processing

and classical theories of language processing. That he supports the claim there are "syntactic substantive parameters in language...

Education And Senior Centers

active role in adult education by virtue of already having a facility full of eager learners. Some might not be aware of just how...

Children And Literature: Learning About Themselves In A Book

are learning that every living being sometime, somehow, some way ultimately dies. Fairy tales have long utilized this concept as ...

Cultural Communication Learning Styles

among different groups of people. As Grant-Thomas and Powell (2006) comment, the term structural racism tends to confuse people....

An Article on Higher Learning Curriculum Critiqued

that multicultural education should include the "religious and spiritually based concepts of reality" that are fundamental to othe...

Professional Context of Lifelong Learning

may not be enough to spark motivation or improve performance. Lifelong learning has been viewed as one way of defining motivation...

Curriculum Design and the Effects of the Learning Theory of Jean Piaget

can readily recognize how teaching reflects the combined components of open communication, creative instruction and critical think...

Social Learning and Aggression

hammers (plus scientific observers) (Boeree, 1998). The children beat the daylights out of the doll, hitting it, kicking it, sitt...

ESL Instruction and Internet Learning Programs

It must be recognized that ESL and TESOL premises are based in a pedagogical ideology that is the linked to second language instru...

Lifelong Learning and Professional Development

hard, all you need to do is to set stretching goals." But recent studies in motivation in the workplace suggest that simply setti...

Learning Theory in 'Stand & Deliver'

of causal processes." Emphasizing the notion of learned expectations, Banduras (1986) theory is closely associated with self-effi...

Cultural Practices For Memory and Learning

an adult and include conceptual reasoning" (Piaget, 2001). During all of these stages, the child "experiences his or her environme...